Vol 5, Issue 1

Texas is among several states grappling with a surge of abandoned drilling sites and dwindling funds to clean them up.

Corpus Christi has been struggling with water problems since last summer. But this latest incident — and its root cause — are different.  

President Obama signed into law a bill that may help expedite the long process of constructing a hurricane protection system for the Texas coast.  

In this week's Q&A, we interview L'Oreal Stepney, the deputy director for the Office of Water, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

The Central Texas Water Conservation Symposium, focused on trends in water efficiency, will be held in Austin on Feb. 2 at the Canyon View Event Center.

The Gulf Coast Water Conservation Symposium is scheduled for Feb. 22 in Houston at the United Way Community Resource Center.

The Texas Water Development Board issued a retrospective look at accomplishments and challenges over the year 2016 with a reminder of the Water for Texas Conference that it's sponsoring Jan. 23-25.

The West Travis County Public Utility Agency says that it is working on improving its procedures following the release of two million gallons of treated effluent last year into the nearby Balcones Preserve.

New research findings, long in the making, show that the recent outbreak of a non-native deadly fish parasite on the Yellowstone River was probably the result of the cumulative impact of human activities.

Using data from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.